A young woman showing remarkable candor and courage in the face of imminent death, or opportunistic drama whore?  Discuss.

For those of you about to answer: "Who the fuck is Jade Goody?"

Clearly, this kid doesn't know what he's talking about:

"Are you kidding? This is silly," says Zack Bartell, 12, who was taking a dirt-bike riding lesson at School for Dirt's track next to Kawasaki Motors' U.S. headquarters here. "There's no way I'm going to stick a motorcycle part in my mouth."
Shut up, Zack.  You're just some stupid kid.  Listen ( Read more... )

Every profanity uttered on The Sopranos . . . and nothing else.  It's almost hypnotic.

While Rhys Millen attempted to do a back flip in a truck on New Year's Eve and almost succeeded, this guy unintentionally pulls a double somersault in his race truck and nails the landing.

You've probably already seen this, but it's too Kafka-rific not to share ( Read more... )

So I have a question for disciples of the Obamessiah:

When Bush ordered air strikes against a sovereign country, it was murder and a blatant example of American imperialist aggression; but when Obama orders drone attacks in Pakistan that kill 22 people, including three children, it's a display of "smart power", and no one on the left even raises ( Read more... )

I don't care which side of the Palestinian/Israeli debate you land on, this guy didn't do a fucking thing to deserve this.  Warning, this is emotionally intense.

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HT: Antiwar.com blog.

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When Red is Black, Qiu XiaolongThis is the third installment in Qiu's mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau.  Chen is a complex, often conflicted character: a smart and conscientious police investigator, a loyal and fast-rising party cadre, and a romantic idealist with a taste for good food and poetry ( Read more... )

A little outrage with your morning coffee ( Read more... )

Just watched Persepolis on the DVR.  Brilliant film.  You'll almost have sympathy for communists after watching it.  (Just kidding.)  According to her Wikipedia entry, Marjane Satrapi (the artist of the original graphic novel) is descended from Iranian royalty (the Qajar dynasty, not the despotic Pahlavis that followed), but her immediate family ( Read more... )

Well, of course not:

Former New York Gov. Eliot M. Spitzer (D) will not face criminal charges for his role in the prostitution scandal that drove him from office this year, prosecutors announced this afternoon ( Read more... )